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Remote Dynamics (Remote Dynamics) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense : $1.85 Mil (TTM As of Sep. 2009)


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What is Remote Dynamics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense?

Selling, general, & admin. expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. Remote Dynamics's selling, general, & admin. expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2009 was $0.68 Mil. Its selling, general, & admin. expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2009 was $1.85 Mil.


Remote Dynamics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Remote Dynamics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Remote Dynamics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Chart

Remote Dynamics Annual Data
Trend Dec99 Dec00 Dec01 Aug02 Aug03 Aug04 Aug05 Aug06 Dec07 Dec08
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.55 9.57 6.49 3.26 2.30

Remote Dynamics Quarterly Data
Nov04 Feb05 May05 Aug05 Nov05 Feb06 May06 Aug06 Nov06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08 Jun08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09
Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.79 -0.02 0.62 0.57 0.68

Competitive Comparison of Remote Dynamics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Remote Dynamics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense, along with its competitors' market caps and Selling, General, & Admin. Expense data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Remote Dynamics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Remote Dynamics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Remote Dynamics's Selling, General, & Admin. Expense falls into.



Remote Dynamics Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Calculation

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense (SGA) includes the direct and indirect costs and all general and administrative expenses of a company. For instance, personnel cost, advertising, rent, communication costs are all part of SGA.

Selling, General, & Admin. Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2009 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.85 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Remote Dynamics  (OTCPK:RMTD) Selling, General, & Admin. Expense Explanation

An efficient operation keeps SGA costs low and thus has higher profit margin. The percentage of SGA relative to total revenue is an indication of how efficiently the company operates. Compare this percentage among the companies in the same industry is a good way of finding more efficient operations. A comparison of the SGA cost relative to the revenue with the historical value can also be an indication of how efficient the company has become.

Warren Buffett likes companies with consistent SGA as the percentage of gross profit.

Companies with no durable competitive advantage show wild variation in SG&A as % of Gross Profit.

If SGA is less than 30% of Gross Profit, it is fantastic. If SGA is nearing 100%, it is is in highly competitive industry.


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Remote Dynamics (Remote Dynamics) Business Description

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Address
200 Chisholm Place, Suite 120, Plano, TX, USA, 75075
Remote Dynamics Inc markets, sells and supports automatic vehicle location and mobile resource management solutions targeting companies that own and operate private vehicle fleets, construction equipment, unpowered assets and others.
Executives
Miller Lloyd I Iii other: Former 10% Owner
Alan B Howe director 1155 KAS DRIVE SUITE 100, RICHARDSON TX 75081

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